Hearing these words from her husband Raj , Radha was shocked.
“Disgusting!!??”
“Raj, but he is our son. Is it his mistake? It was there in your heredity already. Even after doctor’s warning you wanted it just because he was a male baby. Now you call him disgusting?”
“Yes, It’s my mistake. So I need to rectify it. We can put him in some orphanage where they take care of these special children. We can pay them for his boarding ,education , clothing, food ,everything. But let him not be here anymore”
“Orphanage!!??”
“No, Raj I can never allow this to happen till I am alive”.
“Then you too go along with him. I can no more tolerate this”
Radha was shocked. She looked at their son Ravi. He was 5 years old ,he is a special child. He is a mentally retarded child.
“How can I leave you for the sake of my well-being?”she asked herself looking into the eyes of her son.“No , I can never do that.” with a stubborn look she looked at her husband
“Raj, I will go out with Ravi, and for your information we never need your support. I am educated and I can earn myself to bring my son”, saying these words she took her son in her hands and walked out of her house without waiting for Raj words.
“Amma, you have come out leaving father for my sake, though I cant speak and make you understand, I can feel. I can understand the sufferings and pain you are undergoing . Father is not interested to have me with him because of my inability to understand things. But, you are great Amma. You have told him that you can bring me up alone. How am I going to pay for this?”
Ravi though could not express his feeling, these thoughts were running within him. His eyes were filled with tears.
In our day to day life we may come across children with mental retardation. Mental retardation is a developmental disability that is marked by lower-than-normal intelligence and limited daily living skills. Mental retardation is normally present at birth or develops early in life. It is mainly cause by four factors: heredity, prenatal problems, childhood illnesses, and environmental factors. As far as possible we must prevent such children being born by precautionary measures.
But, if born let us not hurt them and leave them aside. They have feelings but only thing is that they cannot express it. If we can show them unconditional love and support they can be taught to leave independently except for few cases where IQ level is very low but that’s a negligible percent.
Here, Ravi had his mother Radha to support him. For many children, they are need in of a support. Let us try to support them and love them.
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